black-eyed adjective3 •Having the iris of a black color.This morning Keegan looks blacker-haired and blacker-eyed than ever before. The cold has plucked extra color into his cheeks and nose, and his outsized ears are flower-pot red. — 1966 •as a part of a phraseblack-eyed peablack-eyed Susan •Having a black eye. formsblacker-eyed · more black-eyed · blackest-eyed · most black-eyed